Rapper Vince Staples performed at Coachella this year and while he was there, he sat down for an interview with Nadeska Alexis, co-host of the Complex News morning show Everyday Struggle. It didn’t take very long for the interview to get very interesting very quickly as Staples got in touch with his inner Hannibal Buress and went after R&B singer R. Kelly with both barrels blazing and called him out on all the horrible things he has become known for. And no, I’m not referring to his 33-chapter song/soap opera “Trapped In The Closet” (though he deserves plenty of shit for that as well), but for his past and present sexual assaults of teenage Black girls.

Nadeska seemed very bothered by the fact that so many people on Twitter were coming after her and insulting her for seemingly jumping to R. Kelly’s defense, trying to silence Staples and prevent him from saying what he did, and basically being compared to Angela Yee, co-host of the popular hip-hop morning show The Breakfast Club, who has gained a reputation for being completely silent when her male co-hosts insult and demean Black women, but having plenty to say on every other topic, and for having plenty of keyboard courage when confronted by others about this on social media.

im at LAX watching people tweet about how im tryna silence Vince 🤦🏾‍♀️ lemme get thru security and post the whole interview. we were having fun, why ppl always gotta take it the extra mile https://t.co/uzJs75YiQm

Toure, I respect your work but you should be a bit more evolved than kids on the internet. Watch the full interview in context, it was supposed to be a funny 4-min clip during the Coachella stream. R Kelly is a rapist creep. I just knew that portion couldn’t air in the stream https://t.co/v7SZBNCTMy

so disappointing that I have to tell you as a fellow journalist to watch something in context before casting judgement. Vince and I clearly have a cool relationship and laughed through the entire thing

Considering how thin-skinned he has proven to be when called out on the fact that he is a known rapist, Kelly’s response to Staples isn’t all that surprising.

But R. Kelly is a known rapist and he deserves to be called out on that. Not just by Vince Staples, not just by his fellow musicians, but by everyone. He deserves to be called out/rejected/shamed for what he’s done and continues to do, and the rest of the music industry and the rest of the world needs to know and accept that Robert Kelly has raped teenage Black girls before, continues to rape teenage Black girls now, continues running an underground cult that is holding young Black girls and women hostage and forcing them all to act as his own personal servants/sex slaves (and he has plenty of other men who are willing to stay silent and look the other way and assist him in holding these young Black girls and women hostage and abusing them), and yet has never been charged, his career remains unaffected even as numerous other abusers have been called out and gone into hiding with sullied reputations and lost career opportunities thanks to the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements (I could easily ask whether #MeToo and #TimesUp would’ve had a greater impact on him and his career if he had been abusing young White girls and women and holding them hostage to be his personal servants/sex slaves, but…we already know the answer to that), and he continues to walk around completely scot-free and live his life with not a single fuck to give about the many other lives that he has ruined.

Because if there’s anyone who finally deserves to be told, “Time’s up,” it’s R. Kelly.